Daniel Bernstein

Areas of Interest and Investigation: Belief and memory; Developmental metacognition; Hindsight bias; Mild head injury; Sleep and dreams. My current interests are in false memory and cognitive development. Specifically, I am interested in how people develop false memories, or memories for events that never occurred. I am also interested in the behavioral consequences of false memories. I am interested in supervising honours students

Educational Background: B.A. (UC Berkeley); M.A. (Brock U); Ph D. (Simon Fraser U); Post-Doc (U Washington)

Selected References

Bernstein, D.M., & Loftus, E.F. (2009). How to tell if a particular memory is true or false. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 370-374.

Bernstein, D.M., & Loftus, E.F. (2009). The consequences of false memory for food preferences and choices. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 135-139.

Bernstein, D.M., Rudd, M.E., Erdfelder, E., Godfrey, R., & Loftus, E.F. (2009). The revelation effect for autobiographical memory: A mixture model analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin, & Review, 16, 463-468

Geraerts, E., Bernstein, D.M., Merckelbach, H., Linders, C., Raymaekers, L., Loftus E.F. (2008). Lasting false beliefs and their behavioral consequences. Psychological Science, 19(8), 749-753.

Bernstein, D.M., Atance, C., Meltzoff, A.N., & Loftus, G.R. (2007). Hindsight bias and developing theories of mind. Child Development, 78, 1374-1394.

Bernstein, D.M., & Harley, E.M. (2007). Fluency misattribution and visual hindsight bias. Memory, 15, 548-560.

Birch, S.A.J., & Bernstein, D.M. (2007). What children can tell us about hindsight bias: A fundamental constraint on perspective taking? Social Cognition, 25, 98-113.

Kronlund, A., & Bernstein, D.M. (2006). Unscrambling words increases brand name recognition and preference. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 681-687.

Bernstein, D.M., Laney, C., Morris, E.K., & Loftus, E.F. (2005). False beliefs about fattening foods can have healthy consequences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102, 13724-13731.

Bernstein, D.M. (2005). Making sense of memory. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 199-208.

Bernstein, D.M., Laney, C., Morris, E.K., & Loftus, E.F. (2005). False memories about food can produce food avoidance. Social Cognition, 23, 11-34.

Bernstein, D.M., Loftus, G.R. & Meltzoff, A. (2005). Object identification in preschool children and adults. Developmental Science, 8, 151-161.

Bernstein, D.M., Atance, C., Loftus, G.R. & Meltzoff, A. (2004). We saw it all along: Visual hindsight bias in children and adults. Psychological Science, 15, 264-267.

Bernstein, D.M., Godfrey, R., Davison, A., & Loftus, E.F. (2004). Conditions affecting the revelation effect for autobiographical memory. Memory & Cognition, 32, 455-462.

Bernstein, D.M. (2002). Information processing difficulty long after self-reported concussion. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 8, 673-682.